Department of Defense Electronic Mall (DoD Emall) - Overview

TRAINING DESCRIPTION

DoD Emall training is provided by the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) to federal government organizations FREE of charge. This training is the best way to learn how to use the single entry point (www.emall.dla.mil) for the military and federal customer to shop for and buy off the shelf finished goods and services from government sources and the commercial marketplace, with emphasis on small business. Youll learn how to build shopping carts whether youre a shopper (identifying needs) or an orderer (can commit government funds). And, youll learn how to purchase goods or services in a myriad of ways; buying from many Emall vendors that now accept both government purchase card (GPC) and MILSTRIP requisitions for order placement and payment.

Our trainers will provide instruction on:

• The features of the Emall Home Page
• Demonstrate tutorials
• Registration for a shopper and/or orderer privileges and describe their roles
• How to access and organize account(s)
• Discuss Service’s policy regarding the use of DoD Emall
• Navigate Commercial Catalogs and Suppliers home pages
• How non-registered suppliers can register with the Emall
• Highlight Express Stores (global lists anyone can use to shop from without having to do the research)
• Highlight Quick list (doing research up front that will save processing time for future purchases)
• Demonstrate how to build and process shopping carts
• Demonstrate how to use Express Stores
• Demonstrate Power Shop capabilities (researching/buying up to 200 items at one time)
• Filter research results to narrow focus to select group of items or suppliers
• Conduct hands on exercises for building and processing a cart from start to finish

Training is provided in either an Overview Lecture or a Hands-On class that last 2 and 4 hours respectively. The Overview Lecture class teaches the students how to access and use DoD Emall without having access to a PC in the training environment. The Hands-On class is lecture as well as practical application exercises on the PCs available in the training environment. The hands-on includes using available PCs to research for goods and services, filtering responses, building and sending (for review or approval) shopping carts, building Quick Lists, viewing pending order/orders placed, checking out, and submitting material receipt acknowledgements. This course is relevant to all military and federal employees that will identify goods and services needed as well as those that are authorized to expend government funds. You can request training on-line.

OVERVIEW TRAINING

OBJECTIVES: This course is tailored for each class; in that we use local DoDAAC(s) for establishing individual account(s), setting GPC spending limits, providing shipping options, and Depot shipping instructions for items released by DLA inventory control points. The outlines below are provided as a guide for each length of time allotted for instruction. Each time segment is geared toward different audiences. Actual material covered is based on class participation.

Overview Lecture Class (2 Hours)

Synopsis: Given to students in a lecture setting where PCs are not available. The target length for the Class is 2 hours or less. Designed to introduce the student to the Emall website capabilities. Students will learn how to register for their own accounts, research for goods and/or services, and build/manipulate/check-out shopping carts. A practical application exercise, on the Emall training website, will be demonstrated if time permits.

Audience: Personnel that can shop for and/or order goods and services, reviewing, approving and certifying officials.

• GENERAL OVERVIEW AND BRIEFING
• NAVIGATING DOD EMALL (Lecture)
  • Navigate Home Page
  • Registration procedures for “shoppers” or “orderers”
  • View Commercial catalogs and Suppliers lists
  • Research goods and services by setting attributes and values
  • Filtering techniques for narrowing scope of research
  • Using hyperlinks for item descriptions, supplier information, pictures etc. with side-by-side comparison capability
  • Using Power Shop to create a blank form
  • Highlight Result and Empty Result sets
  • Building and recalculating shopping carts with Item and Cart Notes
  • Sending carts, via email, for review and approval
  • Checking-out carts
  • View Pending Orders and Orders Placed
  • Use Material Receipt Acknowledgement (MRA) capabilities
• USING POWER SHOP CAPABILITIES (Demo)
  • Batch importing, attribute and value, file(s) from Microsoft Excel
• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
• COURSE EVALUATION

Hands-On Class (4 Hours)

Synopsis: Given to students in a setting where PCs are available for exercises. The target length for the class is 4 hours or less. Designed to introduce the student to the Emall website capabilities. Students will learn how to register for their own accounts, research for goods and/or services, and build/manipulate/check-out shopping carts through lecture and practical application exercises on the Emall training website.

Audience: Personnel that can shop for and/or order goods and services.

• GENERAL OVERVIEW AND BRIEFING
• NAVIGATING DOD EMALL (Hands-on)
  • Navigate Home Page
  • Registration procedures for “shoppers” or “orderers”
  • View Commercial catalogs and Suppliers lists
  • Research goods and services by setting attributes and values
  • Filtering techniques for narrowing scope of research
  • Using hyperlinks for item descriptions, supplier information, pictures etc. with side-by-side comparison capability
  • Using Power Shop to create a blank form
  • Highlight Result and Empty Result sets
  • Building and recalculating shopping carts with Item and Cart Notes
  • Sending carts, via email, for review and approval
  • Checking-out carts
  • View Pending Orders and Orders Placed
  • Use Material Receipt Acknowledgement (MRA) capabilities
• USING POWER SHOP CAPABILITIES (Demo/Hands-on)
  • Batch importing, attribute and value, file(s) from Microsoft Excel
• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
• COURSE EVALUATION